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Seattle is currently in line to being teh single most improved team since last season.

With what turned into a rechid 61-101 record seattle is currently on pace to win an upward of 83 games.

The Mariners have finally turned a lacking team into a team that puts forth solid pitching and clutch pitching. A hot ‘American League’ team that has won their last 13-17 MLB appearances, all of the while doing so with minuscule offense with a total of 32 games decided by just one run.

But the solid pitching is everything this Mariners team has needed in over a decade. Any other winning Mariners season always hevily relied on offense and usually failed to result in solid defense.

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Seattle Mariners star Ichiro got some action on Wednesday morning for the first time in more than two weeks and will see some game action on Thursday afternoon, with the game plan for him to get at least four at-bats.

Ichiro started his ninth Major League season on the 15-day disabled list, the first time in his career that he missed more than five games in any one season.  Due to the effects of a bleeding ulcer he has not been eligible to come off the DL next Wednesday.  Results of his recent blood tests are improving allowing for some game action.

“I don’t think he’s at 100 percent yet, but he’s close,” Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said prior to Wednesday night’s game against the Twins. “Everything is improving and we will plan on him being the designated hitter in [an extended spring training] game tomorrow.  “He had a 75-pitch batting practice today and hit 20 home runs,” the manager said.

The Mariners also received good medical news on right-hander Felix Hernandez who twisted his right ankel during the first inning of Monday nights regular season opener.  Hernandez has improved and was able to make his regular bullpen session on Wednesday.

Not long into the season, Griffey is already in the swing of things. In his debut game for the Mariners things have already began stacking up for the long time superstar. With his 8th MLB career opening day home run Seattle is off to the type of start they need with a 6 to 1 victory over the Minnesota Twins.

There were a lot of changes for this hopeful team. The top of the order alone leads the Mariners of with three straight newcomers caused by Ichiro being on the disabled list.

1 game down and 161 to go, but Griffey is sure to be the spotlight throughout the season as the big move over to Seattle also marks the first time in 11 years Ken Griffey Jr. has started in right field.

Since his departure with the Seattle Mariners in 1999 it may be apparent that Griffey’s days of wall-crashing leaps to snatch a take away in center field are more a thing of his past but Seattle fans were their to support and certainly appreciate a tride and true player.

Griffey was a 10-time Gold Glove Award winner at center field during his first career with the Mariners but didn’t the team bring him back for his hitting?  Griffey will be played at left field a position he hasn’t played that much but he will get acclimated to it.  Griffey stated,  “you just got to where you think the ball’s going to come down.”

Completing three weeks of Spring Training he says his surgically repaired left knee feels good but feels it is about 75 to 85 percent, strength-wise.  The Seattle Mariners are hoping it will be 100 percent by the time the regular season opens.  How long will it take for him to be comfortable in his new position?

Griffey committed eight errors in 302 total chances the most errors he had made since 1999, his final season of his first time with the Mariners.  The Mariners need him driving in runs and contributing to the offense that ranked lowest in the American League last season.  He is improving this spring so what do the Mariners fans feel Ken Griffey Jr. will really do in this position for their team, they will be there with the jersey’s they dug out of the attic.

Seattle’s top pick in the 2008 Fist-Year Player Draft,  Josh Fields signed in mid-February.  The media is flocking to the Spring Training complex of the Seattle Mariners to watch Fields face live batters for the first time since last June’s College World Series.

The 23 year old right handed pitcher went to work in a simulated game with a lineup of Griffey Mike Sweeney and Yuniesky Betancourt. He had Griffey looking at a first strike and the rest of his one inning went pretty much just like that.  He made an estimated 25-30 pitches, the three Major League veterans only hit three into fair territory.

The Mariners traded their closer, J.J. Putz to the New York Mets and it was apparent that Fields can face the vetrans showing a good, live fastball and hard breaking ball. Wakamatsu plans to have Fields show his stuff in one os Seattle’s games in Tucson.

Hitless in his first two plate appearances as a designated hitter Ken Griffey Jr. was all smiles during his second Mariners debut. He walked and flied out during his first game back in a Mariners uniform. The 39 year old Griffey once again sported  the No. 24 Griffey Mariners jersey.

Griffey is baseball’s leading active home run hitter, with Seattle hoping this will energize the Seattle fans. Griffey said that if the team can get into the habit of doing the little things, like moving runners over and scoring runs with two outs, “big things will happen.”

While Griffey does not feel he is the big story he downplayed the significance of his contribution during the Mariners exhibition loss against Austrailia’s World Baseball Classic team in Peioria Stadium. Despite the three home run effort by fellow Mariners the game ended in an 11-9 loss and directed the focus off his return.  He waled on a full-count pitch from Aussie left-hander Travis Backley reaching third base before the inning ended. In the second inning swinging at the first pitch with a fly ball for the final out.